By WADA

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published the 2019 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods (List); the 2019 Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory Notes; and the 2019 Monitoring Programme.

The List, which was approved by WADA’s Executive Committee (ExCo) on 20 September 2018, comes into force on 1 January 2019.

The List, which is one of six International Standards that are mandatory for all Signatories of the World Anti-Doping Code (Code), designates what substances and methods are prohibited both in- and out-of-competition, and which substances are banned in particular sports.

WADA Director General Olivier Niggli said: “WADA is pleased to announce the publication of the 2019 Prohibited List. Updated annually, it is one of the cornerstones of the global anti-doping programme. Every year, we review the List in consultation with a wide range of stakeholders. It is vital that we stay ahead of those that endeavour to cheat the system so in reviewing the List, experts review sources such as scientific and medical research, trends, and intelligence gathered from law enforcement and pharmaceutical companies.”

The List is released three months ahead of it taking effect so that athletes and their entourage can acquaint themselves with any modifications. Ultimately, athletes are responsible for the substances in their body and the methods on the List; and, athlete entourage are also liable for anti-doping rule violations if determined to be complicit. Consequently, if there is any doubt as to the status of a substance or method, it is important that they contact their respective Anti-Doping Organisation (International Federation or National Anti-Doping Organisation) for advice.

The List’s annual revision process is led by WADA, beginning with an initial meeting in January and concluding with the publication of the List by 1 October. This is an extensive consultation process that includes WADA’s List Expert Group. They gather information, circulating a draft List among stakeholders, taking their submissions into consideration and revising the draft, followed by review by the Agency’s Health, Medical and Research (HMR) Committee.

The HMR Committee then makes its recommendation to the WADA ExCo, which approves the List during its September meeting.

For a substance or method to be added to the List, it must be determined that it meets two of the following three criteria:

It has the potential to enhance or enhances sport performance

It represents an actual or potential health risk to the athletes

It violates the spirit of sport

It should be noted that for athletes who have a legitimate medical reason for using a prohibited substance or method that is on the List, they may be accommodated if they meet the criteria outlined in the International Standard for Therapeutic Use Exemptions (ISTUE). The TUE process has overwhelming acceptance from athletes, physicians and anti-doping stakeholders worldwide.

Languages and Formats

The 2019 Prohibited List; the 2019 Summary of Modifications and Explanatory Notes; and the 2019 Monitoring Programme are available for download on WADA’s website in English and French with Spanish to follow shortly.

Stakeholders wishing to translate the List into other languages are kindly asked to signal their interest at [email protected], by 27 October. If interested, WADA would provide the necessary files and, once the translation is finalised, would make the List available on the Agency’s website.

The List’s mobile-friendly digital edition will go live on 1 January 2019.

Australian track and field athlete Caytlyn Sharp has an increased presence on social media thanks to the International Federation for Athletes with Intellectual Impairments (World Intellectual Impairment Sport) #WeAreSport campaign.

#WeAreSport aims to give female athletes the tools and knowledge to use social media more effectively to promote their lives as an athlete. This will enable them to inspire other women and girls to try sport.

Eleven athletes from around the world have been involved. Each has taken part in an online seminar with the support of an administrator.

Sharp is an World Intellectual Impairment Sport world champion in high jump II1 and the national record holder in the 200m. Before her involvement in the project, the Australian only had an athlete page on Facebook. So keen was the 15-year-old to get started, she created an Instagram account as soon as she was a confirmed #SportChampion for #WeAreSport in March. Then in August, despite some reservations about the platform, Sharp started a Twitter account during the seminar.

Sharp, who started athletics when she was eight, now has nearly 300 followers and her fan base is growing every day. The athlete has been using the hints and tips she picked-up to attract more followers.

Sharp said she enjoyed learning about social media and now has more confidence in using it. The new knowledge will stand her in good stead as she prepares for her home 2019 World Intellectual Impairment Sport Global Games in Brisbane.

Anula Costa is Sharp’s coach and also the nominated administrator, supporting the young athlete with her social media activities alongside Sharp’s mother Cindy. Costa was put forward by Sport Inclusion Australia, the World Intellectual Impairment Sport member in the country, alongside Chantel Lewis.

“The seminar was useful with good tips,” Costa said. “The most useful part of the seminar for me was following up steps on e-platforms. It was great.

“I have seen Caitlyn has improved and doing well.  I am looking forward to progress and increased public awareness.”

As well as supporting the current participants, it is hoped that the administrators can use the skills they have learned to encourage other athletes to use social media.

About #WeAreSport

#WeAreSport is supported by the Agitos Foundation, the development arm of the IPC, through their 2017 Grant Support Programme.

All materials used during the seminars, including a Quick Start Guide to Social Media and a longer guide, are available in a variety of languages for all World Intellectual Impairment Sport members to use here.

Egyptian swimmer Rahma Khaled has described how the International Federation for Athletes with Intellectual Impairments (World Intellectual Impairment Sport) #WeAreSport campaign has helped her with her skills on social media.

Despite having more than 9,000 likes on her Facebook page, Khaled did not have a Twitter or Instagram account before being involved in #WeAreSport.

However, with support from administrator Inas Mostafa, the Egyptian has now gained the confidence to add to her digital presence and launch accounts.

Khaled, who competes in the II2 category, was also encouraged by the idea that she could be a role model for other women and girls with intellectual impairments.

“I feel more confident, because I saw a new world and [I want] to help other people to become champions,” she said.

#WeAreSport aims to give female athletes the tools and knowledge to use social media more effectively to promote their lives as an athlete.

Eleven athletes from around the world have been involved. Each has taken part in an online seminar with the support of an administrator. Mostafa was nominated by the Egyptian World Intellectual Impairment Sport member, ESFID.

“I feel more confident in supporting my athlete to use social media,” Mostafa said. “I have seen a change in the athlete [Rahma]. She created a Twitter account and started using it, she is doing hard work on social media.”

About #WeAreSport

#WeAreSport is supported by the Agitos Foundation, the development arm of the International Paralympic Committee, through their 2017 Grant Support Programme.

All materials used during the seminars, including a Quick Start Guide to Social Media and a longer guide, are available in a variety of languages for all World Intellectual Impairment Sport members to use here.

Paralympian Poleth Mendes of Ecuador was not sure exactly what kinds of things she should be posting to social media ahead of her participation in the International Federation for Athletes with Intellectual Impairments (World Intellectual Impairment Sport) #WeAreSport seminar.

Now the World Championships shot put F20 silver medallist is using her Facebook and Instagram to share her life as an athlete more and inspire other women and girls along the way.

#WeAreSport is a campaign which aims to give female athletes the tools and confidence to use the power of social media to promote themselves. It is hoped that those athletes involved – 11 from countries all around the world – will be able to attract new fans and show other people with intellectual impairments that they too can do sport.

The athletes, all from a wide range of sports, took part in an online seminar and were given materials to guide them. Advice was given on what to share and types of content that work well.

“I liked that it was dynamic and entertaining,” Mendes said of the seminar. Even though she is currently injured, the idea of sharing updates about her rehabilitation particularly appealed to the Ecuadorian: “Now I am in recovery so I have uploaded photos and videos of my therapies and all sports activities.” As part of the project countries also had to nominate an administrator to support athletes in the longer term. Vanessa Vinueza was chosen by the World Intellectual Impairment Sport member in Ecuador and has seen a big change in the way Mendes approaches her social media since the online session.

“The most useful part of the seminar was knowing that in Poleth’s social networks, we can also upload content from day to day, before training or after, with their peers, etc. This means her pages do not have such linear content,” Vinueza said.

And the new activity is already producing results:

“Poleth gets excited when I tell her that someone or some institution has started to follow her on Instagram or Facebook, for example, World Intellectual Impairment Sport or the IPC [International Paralympic Committee.]”

About #WeAreSport

#WeAreSport is supported by the Agitos Foundation, the development arm of the IPC, through their 2017 Grant Support Programme.

All materials, including a Quick Start Guide to Social Media and a longer guide, are available in a variety of languages for all World Intellectual Impairment Sport members to use here.

A series of female athletes are being celebrated online to mark the International Day of Sport for Athletes with Intellectual Impairments (IDSAII) on Thursday (20 September).

The theme for this year’s IDSAII is firmly rooted in the International Federation for Athletes with Intellectual Impairments (World Intellectual Impairment Sport) #WeAreSport campaign. It aims to encourage more female athletes to use social media.

By the end of September, 11 swimmers, track and field stars, tennis and table tennis #SportChampions will have taken part in seminars to give them the tools and knowledge to improve their digital presence. They have all been supported by administrators from within their World Intellectual Impairment Sport member organisations, ensuring the project can be spread to other athletes in the long term.

For one week starting on 20 September, World Intellectual Impairment Sport will publish athlete stories on inas.org and graphics featuring their social media handles to help build the following of the participants.

World Intellectual Impairment Sport has also published guides to setting-up and using social media in different languages on a dedicated section of its website for all athletes and members to access.

World Intellectual Impairment Sport Vice President Robyn Smith has been involved in the campaign as a firm advocate of women in sport.

“The athletes in #WeAreSport range from those just starting out to experienced Paralympians and world champions in a variety of sports,” Smith said. “But not all of them were getting the full potential from social media.

“We knew that we had to do something about the smaller numbers of women and girls with intellectual impairments taking up sport compared to boys and men. Social media seemed like a good place to start as it is accessible to billions of people around the world.

“We had a great response from the athletes and administrators involved. Many went away and immediately started using the ideas they had heard to set-up accounts on platforms they had not previously used, or posting different kinds of content to grow their fanbase.

“We have been delighted with the response and plan to grow the reach of #WeAreSport into the future, including at the World Intellectual Impairment Sport Global Games which Australia will host in Brisbane in 2019.

“This is just one part of our role in developing Paralympic and non-Paralympic sports, adding to our international competition calendar and work on athlete eligibility.”

One of the athletes to participate was US swimmer and Paralympian Leslie Cichocki.

Cichocki said she liked the fact that the sessions were a way of “getting more women involved in sports and having their voices and experiences heard.”

Egyptian swimmer Rahma Khaled also took the aim of #WeAreSport firmly to heart: “I feel more confident, because I saw a new world and [I want] to help other people to become champions,” she said.

Stefanie Pitchian from the Singapore Disability Sports Council is helping swimmer Danielle Moi Yang Ting with her social media. Pitchian said that as a result of the campaign she feels more confident in supporting Moi Yang Ting online.

“She comes to me with different post ideas and she shares with me on how it would be engaging her followers,” Pitchian said.

Since the first wave of #SportChampions were announced in March on International Women’s Day, a further three athletes and three administrators have joined. That brings the total to 11 athletes from 10 countries.

#WeAreSport #SportChampions

Athlete	Eligibility group	Country	Age	Sport	Career highlights
Danielle Moi Yang Ting   Instagram: @daniellemoimoi	II1/S14	Singapore	19	Swimming	2017 Asian Youth Para Games medallist (silver 100m butterfly, bronze 100m backstroke, 200m freestyle)
Jade Lucy   Instagram: @jadelucy_g Facebook:  @jadelucy-swimmer Twitter: @jadelucy_lucy	II1/S14	Australia	21	Swimming	World Intellectual Impairment Sport Global Games champion (100m, 400m, 800m, freestyle) and World Intellectual Impairment Sport world champion (200m, 400m and 1,500m freestyle)
Poleth Mendes   Instagram and Facebook: @polethmendesec	II1/F20	Ecuador	22	Athletics	Paralympian and silver medallist in shot put F20 at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships
Yang Hee Seo	II1/class 11	South Korea	31	Table tennis	2014 Asian Para Games (bronze women’s singles)
Caitlyn Sharp   Instagram: @caytlynsharpathlete Facebook: @CaytlynSharpTF20Athlete Twitter: @caytlynsharpat1	II1/T/F20	Australia	15	Athletics	World Intellectual Impairment Sport world champion (high jump)
Wong Pui Kei	II1/class 11	Hong Kong	20	Table tennis	2017 World Intellectual Impairment Sport World Table Tennis Championships (silver women’s doubles, bronze women’s singles, gold women’s team, gold junior doubles, gold junior team, silver junior singles)
New: Rahma Khaled   Instagram: @rahmakhaled453 Facebook: @shampionrahma Twitter: @Rahmakhaled10	II2	Egypt	22	Swimming	National and international medallist
New: Gloria Agblemagnon   Instagram: @gloriaagblemagnon	II1/F20	France	20	Track and field	World Intellectual Impairment Sport hammer and discus world champion, Global Games champion hammer
New: Lizaba Deepak	II2	India	23	Swimming	National champion
New: Lily Mills	II1	Great Britain	18	Tennis	National champion
New: Leslie Cichocki   Instagram: @swimprincess88 Facebook: @swimstarleslie Twitter: @Paralympswimmer	II1/S14	USA	29	Swimming	First athlete from the USA to compete in swimming at the Paralympics

 

#WeAreSport is supported by the Agitos Foundation, the development arm of the International Paralympic Committee, through their 2017 Grant Support Programme.